I'm trying to deploy an OVF from VMware Integrated Openstack at my vCenter 6, but now it was showing an "Operation time out" message. Before, it was showing the message "the operation is not allowed ...

Right now I have two separate vCenter servers (one older, one brand new), each managing 3 clusters of hosts. I will eventually need to get 300-500 VM's from the old clusters to the new. If I put the ...

I'm performing a migration from VmWare to Hyper-V and the Virtual CPU that you are assigning to a Virtual Machine is different and I'd like to know what should be the equivalent values when we move a ...

I've been reading up on linked mode, but this only applies to the management on multiple clusters from a single vCenter via linking other vCenter's into it.
My question is - can you have two servers ...

We have a mixture of managed and unmanaged VMs within out VMware platform, For our managed VMs we use SNMP within the VM to graph the VM's network traffic which we then use for billing if the customer ...

I have a mixed version ESXi environment with versions 4.1, 5.0 and 5.5 hosts. I also have a standalone server, running Windows Server 2012 R2 that has vCenter 5.5 installed on it.
All these servers ...

I've got two DELL PowerEdge R730 servers loaded with a dual Xeon E5-2630v3 Haswell. When I installed VMware vCenter, I tried to create a Cluster with VMware vMotion EVC mode set to Haswell, since it's ...

I have two ESXi Hosts in Hetzner datacenter and because of the Hetzner's subnet allocation policies I should have a router (implemented with CentOS) in each ESXi server to route the subnet IP to the ...

I can't seem to find the answers to these questions within the vSphere 5 Documentation center, so please share if you are aware of any aspects of these questions.
What happens to the failed VM that ...

We are using external dedicated Database Server
During VCenter SSO installation RSA Database got created using the script (RSA_DATA.mdf,RSA_INDEX.ndf,translog.ldf)and pointed the SSO to it
Now During ...

We currently have 3 VMware hosts, all running ESXi 4.1. They are all HP DL380 G7's, two of them having dual Xeon E5620 cpus with 96GB RAM, and the third having dual Xeon E5645 cpus and 64GB RAN.
The ...

I recently migrated a windows 2003 physical machine to virtual, I've installed vm tools, and reconfigured the nic to use the vmxnet 2 adapter, and changed that to the E1000 nic as a troubleshooting ...

I replaced our Windows-based vCenter 5.1 server with the 5.5 Linux-based appliance a few months ago and am very happy with it. However one thing that's been puzzling me since I deployed it is how to ...

Can I have 2 different ESXI Versions in the one Vcenter? MyVcenter is split up into several Clusters (for management and user separation/security reasons) .
All host in a cluster are at the same patch ...

We are upgrading 4 hosts from ESXi 5 to 5.5
We are adding 4 more hosts with clean ESXi 5.5 installs
We are also upgrading our vCS 5 to the vCSA 5.5
Using Enterprise Plus Licensing
Issue: I am trying ...

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 hosting some iSCSI targets/LUNs from a local raided JBOD via Virtual Disks.
I have created a thin provisioned 2TB VHDX in Windows and have added the target to VMWare. ...

When I add permissions at the data center level with the propagate option, I see the account in the permissions list on the individual servers but the privileges aren't taking effect. The privileges ...

I have a script that is moving VM's from one datastore to another. I have other logic to protect the Storage backend and fabric from over subscription and to wait to submit new requests at specific ...

I'm using the knife-vsphere plugin for chef to interact with our vsphere hosts.
As part of the config for the knife-vsphere plugin it seems that you have to enter a plain text password which I think ...

I am using ESXi 5.1 in the hosts, I have setup a distributed switch with corresponding uplink and port groups. When migrating to distributed switch, it seems that VMs from the same host can ping one ...

I have a vCenter server that is hosed. I cannot get the service to start, and if I do get it to start, I cannot connect to it via the thick or web client. So I am considering setting up a VCSA server ...